I remember realizing that it’s important to look at people and their circumstances before letting myself being hurt by what someone can say to me. People may be rude or upset or frustrated, but very often the circomstances really push them to be like that. That’s why I don’t need to take any bad comment or pressure from people who are in the middle of an “upsetting” situation or a rush hour.

Now it’s gone deeper - I think. Sometimes people around me aren’t nice. They seem upset or frustrated and they make me feel as if I’m not doing things properly, as if I’m not good enough for them. When I look at their circumstances, I find people who are under pressure. People who’d need six hands instead of two. People who are not understood. What I realize now is that these people, no matter the wrong they do, the lies they tell, the compromises they make, or the comfort they take from me… they’re simply, desperately looking for happiness. They just want to be happy and comfortable so they use whatever means they can to accomplish their goal. And for some people, it doesn’t matter if they use people, people’s hapiness even, in order to get their own happiness. If they lie and aren’t nice, it’s because there’s something that makes them uncomfortable, something’s wrong, they’re looking for more. They want to get out of that state so they do whatever they can sometimes.

 When people aren’t nice to me or seem to be upset, instead of feeling little and a failure, I stand there and think, “poor him”, “poor her”. They might not be nice and it’s wrong to trade people’s happiness for your bitterness, but serious, those people just want to be happy. Isn’t it most people’s goal in life: be happy?

 So what’s the point of me writing this here? Hmm… Well, maybe just to encourage you and me to be encouraged: people may not be nice all the time, but they’re actually sad, they have little hope on this earth. They live for this life and try to get all they can out of it. I realize that there is no need for me to feel down, stressed because of things around me. I have a hope that is not of this earth and my God is greater and bigger than anything and, any boss or any threat. And, I’ve got real happiness, so I don’t need to be jealous, upset, impatient or under pressure.